self-confident - Story 125250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked with an easy stride through the bustling marketplace, his new invention, a revolutionary gadget, drawing envious glances. David was on top of his game, and the medical follow-up was merely a step in the right direction. Every challenge had been met and conquered.

The nurse, face pale, said. “Sir, I have to apologize, but it seems there was a mix-up with your records.” She stumbled over her words.

David merely chuckled. He was accustomed to facing obstacles. "Mixed up? Well, that's an easy fix, isn't it?" He adjusted his collar, a genuine smile on his face. He knew he'd prevail. He always did.

Emotion: self-confident

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.45 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.56

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion self-confident. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 self-confident stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the self-confident emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the self-confident vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.778
`la`	0.550
`l`	0.467
`😎`	0.458
`😉`	0.411

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.961
`L`	-0.538
`😞`	-0.464
`마다`	-0.459
`😣`	-0.458